Real World
1. Those institutions at which "progr AMming" may be used in the s AMe sentence as "Fortran", " COBOL", "RPG", " IBM", "DBASE", etc. Places where progr AMs do such commercially necessary but intellectually uninspiring things as generating payroll checks and invoices. 2. The location of non-progr AMmers and activities not related to progr AMming. 3. A bizarre dimension in which the standard dress is shirt and tie and in which a person' s working hours are defined as 9 to 5 (see code grinder). 4. Anywhere outside a university. "Poor fellow, he' s left MIT and gone into the Real World." Used pejoratively by those not in residence there. In conversation, talking of someone who has entered the Real World is not unlike speaking of a deceased person. It is also noteworthy that on the c AMpus of C AMbridge University in England, there is a gaily-painted l AMp-post which bears the label "REALITY CHECKPOINT". It marks the boundary between university and the Real World check your notions of reality before passing. This joke is funnier because the C AMbridge "c AMpus" is actually coextensive with the centre of C AMbridge. See also fear and loathing, mundane, uninteresting. In addition suitable contents: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ai ] [ AL ] [ al ] [ AM ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ AS ] [ as ] [ ASE ] [ at ] [ au ] [ B ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bi ] [ bo ] [ br ] [ bridge ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ cat ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ co ] [ COBOL ] [ code ] [ code grinder ] [ com ] [ con ] [ D ] [ DB ] [ DBA ] [ de ] [ dec ] [ do ] [ du ] [ E ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ er ] [ era ] [ es ] [ et ] [ fear and loathing ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ Fortran ] [ G ] [ ga ] [ ge ] [ gen ] [ gl ] [ gr ] [ grind ] [ gs ] [ h ] [ hat ] [ hing ] [ hose ] [ hr ] [ IBM ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ int ] [ interesting ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ is ] [ IT ] [ it ] [ jo ] [ K ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ lk ] [ location ] [ ls ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ MIT ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ ms ] [ mu ] [ mundane ] [ N ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ nl ] [ nn ] [ no ] [ ns ] [ NT ] [ O ] [ om ] [ pa ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ Pla ] [ post ] [ pr ] [ progrAM ] [ progrAMmer ] [ progrAMming ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ RE ] [ re ] [ real ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ RPG ] [ S ] [ sa ] [ sAM ] [ SE ] [ se ] [ sentence ] [ sh ] [ si ] [ sit ] [ so ] [ st ] [ standard ] [ su ] [ T ] [ talk ] [ tc ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ tw ] [ ua ] [ uninteresting ] [ us ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ Y ] [ za ]
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